Meet the Renegades - Christian Felber
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- Опубліковано 17 лис 2024
- On this episode of Meet the Renegades, Ross Ashcroft welcomes Christian Felber - author, lecturer and founder of the Economy for the Common Good.
From Aristotle to Adam Smith economics was a school of thought based on Natural Laws and philosophy. How come we have strayed so far from our roots? What really has the Mont Pelerin Society got to do with Reaganomics and Thatcherism?
From forgetting the real meaning behind the word ‘competition’ to establishing ways we can, and are, rebuilding the economy for the common good, Felber gives an insight into a way of thinking about modern life which hasn’t changed for centuries. His ideas will also inspire a new debate about ways that companies are motivated to operate in the future.
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excellent interview!
Excellent interview. Mr. Felber seems to have thought very deeply about this. As a moral philosopher and economist, I am not sure I would really disagree with the foundations of Mr. Felber's work. However, what I miss in this and almost all other conversations about society/economics is this: discussing "how" society and markets interact is indeed important, but what seems even more important is "what exactly is it that society is attempting to achieve"? What I mean by this is that there seems to be an unexplored belief that society should express itself via agriculture, mass production, and services. Are there other expressions? What might these be? And certainly, if automation is increasingly replacing the need for human labor in these past three socio-economic activities, what then?
Great interview. Thanks
Great question "what is neoliberalism" thank you for an excellent answer !
Please when the subject of 'Natural Law' comes up in a conversation let them elaborate on how they 'see' /experience this in their personal life and how they see this expressed in society. But especially the personal answer can give the viewer a deeper insight on their view of reality.
I love these interviews but can't hear anything without headphones on. Please raise your volume levels when making these!
+BroccoliDog Thank you for the feedback and the kind words. We have had this note from someone else today and we will look at it ASAP so future films are louder. Thank you.
I wish this ideas would permeate in the unversity system. I had coffee with my advance accounting profesor and his reluctancy to view neoliberalism from a different perspective is my biggest demotivation.
+Ale Kumo - really interesting. Thanks for this - good to know.
I love what this guy has to say about growing a Common Good economy. The question I'd like to ask him is to do with his proposed 'Common Good Balance Sheet'. It's a great idea but isn't there the risk that in practice it could place such a high regulatory burden (i.e. cost of auditing many complex social metrics) on smaller companies that they would lose competitive advantage against the major actors in the marketplace - even potentially being forced out of business?
"Does it make sense to run government like a business? The short answer is no. Bear in mind, first, that “efficiency” in the private sector means profit. Hence, to ask that the government be run like a business is tantamount to asking that the government turn a profit.
The problem in a nutshell, is that not everything that is profitable is of social value and not everything of social value is profitable."
www.forbes.com/sites/johntharvey/2012/10/05/government-vs-business/
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Do not confuse the economic - oikos nomia - the norms of running home and community with chrematistics - krema atos - the accumulation of money. ~ Aristotle
To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment…would result in the demolition of society. ~ Karl Polanyi, 1944
In 1945 or 1950 if you had seriously proposed any of the ideas and policies in today’s standard neoliberal toolkit, you would have been laughed off the stage or sent off to the insane asylum. ~ Susan George, political scientist
Dogs do eat dogs, and humans.., we aren't going to elaborate on, but the management of domesticated animals includes humans, and the economy of embodied values to do with breeding and meat production Husbandry, is very pronounced in Social Heirachy, with a paradoxical acceptance and dualistic ambivalence about Social Services and Slavery. Our hunting and gathering transformation to Herding and Tillage is "Biblical", animalistic, complicated and messy.
This makes so much sense. A system error for sure